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Quick Lick, Quick Results - Detroit: BH - Part 2 · Replay Reviews

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  In this episode, we learn that suspiciously cheap motel rooms will still exist in 2038.
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  We serve dinner that looks like it was thrown together by a toddler.
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  And speaking of toddler food, we are surprised with the consistency of android brains.
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  Very jello-y.
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  Thank you for coming back from our replay reviews.
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  My name is Leah.
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  And my name is Cathy.
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  We are two friends who are here to replay, review, and analyze your favorite video games.
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  And since Cathy has never seen the games before, it helps me view them through her fresh eyes,
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  almost like I'm discovering them again for the first time.
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  We hope it will be a similar experience for you.
• 0:43
  Scene 1.
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  I would say you read my mind, but we do it every single episode.
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  Still November 5th, but it's now 11pm.
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  Kara and Alice reach the end of the bus line and have to get off and they start searching
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  for a shelter.
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  At some point, Alice wanders off to a bus station.
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  And while there, a worker android approaches Kara and says, you look lost.
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  I know someone who can help you.
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  And then seemingly transfers some data to Kara who says, but that's on the other side
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  of town.
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  We need a place for tonight.
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  This WR600 android is really creepy.
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  I don't like that.
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  Also, what's up with it always raining in these David Cage games?
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  Like it's heavy rain.
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  I think he just loves that game and any reference he can make to it.
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  He just can't help himself.
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  Well in hindsight, I don't know why they couldn't have just stayed at home with Todd's body
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  and pretend like everything's fine until they could pack more stuff up, steal his money,
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  and then leave.
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  Like I get you're nervous and you want to leave, but at that very moment, no one's going
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  to know Todd's dead.
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  Well maybe the gunshots sound, so there's that.
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  But still.
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  Yeah, they could have gotten rid of the body or something.
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  You know?
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  They could have done something.
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  They panicked.
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  But now they're here and they enter a convenience store.
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  And Kara uses Alice as a distraction to steal from the register.
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  Okay, so Kara whispers to Alice, like, I need you to go knock those cans over.
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  And Alice goes, knock them down?
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  So loud it irritates me.
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  I know she's just a kid, but read the room, Alice.
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  But also those cans, are those lettuce juice?
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  What are those?
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  They look like lettuce juice.
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  I don't know.
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  Pull it up.
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  That's so random.
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  Oh, it's lemon juice.
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  It looks like limes.
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  Hold on, let me share my screen.
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  To be fair though, have you ever seen a can of lemon juice?
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  Oh, it's like a drink though.
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  I was picturing like a bean kind of can.
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  Not a drink kind of can.
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  Okay, in all fairness, this shade of blurriness looks like lettuce.
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  It must be lemon lime, because that's way too green to be a lemon.
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  Right?
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  The distraction works, and they leave with money and a candy bar.
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  Alice is upset that Kara used her, and Kara apologizes.
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  I'm glad Kara apologized.
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  In this moment, she kind of reminds me of Haruka.
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  Yeah, I could see it.
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  But yeah, but what's up with David Cage constantly making you choose some kind of ethical dilemma,
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  being that ethical dilemma situation where do you choose to steal or do you choose to
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  starve yourself and die with this child?
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  The way I see it, they've already killed somebody.
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  That's true.
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  You know, what's that candy bar and some hash gonna do?
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  That is true.
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  Who cares?
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  At least they left the convenience store guy alive.
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  It's true.
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  Also, he was so nice to Alice when she knocked the cans down.
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  If I were that guy, I would have been so annoyed at this little girl that just knocked all
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  my cans down.
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  But he's so nice.
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  So despite Alice being upset, they now have money and can stay in the motel and not the
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  creepy derelict house.
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  But Androids are not allowed, so Kara has to get a change of clothes.
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  So they head to the laundromat, and Alice gets mad again when Kara steals the laundry.
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  But Alice just, she needs to understand the situation that they're in.
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  I totally understand where she's coming from, but at the same time, breathe the room, Alice.
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  You either go back with like CPS and only be ignored some more, or you stick it out
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  and tough it out with Kara.
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  And we already stole the money.
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  Might as well double down, steal the clothes, stay in the motel.
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  So they're in the laundromat.
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  There's an article there, and you're sucking through it.
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  And one of the news article headlines is, my husband got an Android pregnant.
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  And I have a lot of questions I don't want to go into, but at the same time, I have a
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  lot of questions.
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  Oh yeah, I do too.
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  I mean, I think that they're parts.
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  That sounds like I'm talking about reproductive parts, but I just mean parts to Androids.
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  They're called like bio components.
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  So how much bio is there?
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  Is that just what they're calling it?
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  Because they look human?
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  Or are there actual bio based things?
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  I don't know.
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  Is it possible?
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  Why is cyber life creating reproductive parts so they can create life?
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  You know what I mean?
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  Why is one of the concerned, like let's put ovaries in this Android?
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  Yeah.
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  I mean, we'll see soon that obviously they're going to make a lot of money with having relations
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  available with Androids, but why the need for reproduction?
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  That's taking it too far.
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  It's creepy.
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  Or the other way around.
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  What if it was an Android who got a human pregnant?
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  That's creepy too.
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  That's somehow weirder.
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  You expect humans to be gross like that, but not an Android.
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  I think we should move on.
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  We absolutely should move on.
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  We get back to the motel and we book a room.
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  It's only $40.
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  I don't believe it.
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  I really don't believe you will ever be able to book a motel for 40 bucks in 2038.
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  Alright next day, November 6th at 3 34 a.m.
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  Marcus wakes up in what appears to be an Android landfill.
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  However it took you until the absolute last moment in the scene to realize that this was
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  Marcus.
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  I'm embarrassed.
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  Well, I mean, there's a lot going on.
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  You see this thing crawling through more things and it's like, as you described, a scene from
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  Toy Story where they're like sipping through trash.
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  Very reminiscent.
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  It's like a different potato head where you're just finding components to stitch together.
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  So it's a lot going on.
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  It is.
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  But I like how you went, wait is that Marcus?
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  Literally two seconds before he says my name is Marcus.
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  Well, I didn't think that he would end up in the dump to begin with.
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  I thought he would end up in jail similar to the other dude that Connor captured.
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  As you alluded to, he has extensive damage and he has to find replacement parts.
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  While wandering through the junkyard an android in disrepair grabs his arm and says there's
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  a place where we can be free.
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  Before seemingly shutting down.
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  Marcus sees a flash image of a sign that says Ferndale.
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  Well I'm wondering, is he getting the memory because he took parts from other people and
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  therefore he gets their memory?
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  Or is it the person who told him about Jericho, his last thing he did before he died, I guess,
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  sent him that memory through whatever way androids have?
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  We saw this hinted in the previous scene when the android transfers data to Kara through
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  touch.
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  I think that's what's happening here as well as he's giving him this information.
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  Eventually he finds all the components that he needs and is able to reassemble himself.
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  He also at some point lets an android live that has a part that he needs.
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  Another one that he took a component from is convulsing after he took the Ethereum pump
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  out of it.
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  How do you feel about him scavenging parts off of androids?
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  At first I wanted to say that he has some level of empathy because he let that one android
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  live.
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  But then he doesn't do that for everyone.
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  At the same time I understand that if you don't take it from them they're just still
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  gonna die so what's the difference between now and a bit later?
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  It's a little bit of the Alice situation.
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  You gotta do what you gotta do but it's pretty brutal when you see that one android convulsing.
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  Marcus is able to crawl out of the pit and at the top he removes his LED and this is
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  when he says, my name is Marcus.
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  How did you feel about this scene?
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  I feel like it looks good but it goes on a bit too long.
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  I like that this scene shows Marcus literally crawling out of a pit, putting himself together.
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  I feel like they overdid it a little bit and it takes too long and it kinda takes away
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  from it.
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  This is worse than Pharah having to clean the house.
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  I was awake for it.
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  Not that you could tell because the camera was off but I was awake for all of it compared
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  to the other scene.
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  I am curious about what that LED circle thing at his temple is for.
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  Is it there to regulate emotions or is it part of their brain or is it Cyberlife's ability
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  to virtually wipe them clear of their memories?
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  I know that he's a deviant now so removing it doesn't seem to be an issue but let's
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  say he wasn't a deviant.
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  If he removed that, what's gonna happen?
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  I think it's just an indicator light.
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  I think it just indicates what's going on with them internally.
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  That's my understanding.
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  It's now November 6th at 9.56am.
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  Connor is at some fancy garden thing looking for in Amanda.
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  Walking around he finds an odd biosecurity thing or a screen.
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  It has a handprint on it so he places his palm on it and gets maybe a slight shock or
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  he's just surprised.
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  I feel like he's entering into a virtual environment.
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  Kind of like an RE situation where Jaden has to put on his sunglasses and I'm assuming
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  there's some kind of key to confirm it is him.
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  So I feel like that's what he's doing that he's somehow connecting with this other virtual
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  environment.
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  He does eventually find Amanda.
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  She seems to be some kind of handler for him.
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  She asks him questions about the investigation and kind of gauges and judges his responses.
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  She seems fond of Connor despite her line of questioning.
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  What are your impressions of Amanda so far?
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  Well, it's like where does she come from and how does she know this level of detail?
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  Is she just reading Connor's mind?
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  Because she seems to have some pretty in-depth knowledge of what's going on.
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  Speaking of, she references We multiple times.
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  Who do you think We is?
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  I'm guessing Cyberlife.
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  She says,
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  More and more androids show signs of deviancy.
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  There are millions in circulation.
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  If they become unstable, the consequences will be disastrous.
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  And then she says, hurry Connor, there's little time.
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  So does she know something?
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  Why do we have this countdown sort of feeling from her?
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  I feel like she's either out to destroy the DPD or she's going to take Cyberlife and go
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  rogue with it.
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  I don't know.
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  Connor arrives at the police station to meet Hank who is not in yet.
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  After he does arrive, Connor sits in on a meeting where Hank is upset about being assigned
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  to the deviant cases because he hates androids.
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  I love when the captain kind of brushes Connor off and Connor just goes, have a nice day,
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  captain.
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  It's so passive aggressive.
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  I love Connor's sass.
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  So when Connor is waiting for Hank, he's going through his desk to learn more about him.
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  And we learn that Lieutenant Anderson has a lot of experience with red ice and he was
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  like on a special task force.
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  So right now there's two big issues.
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  One this red ice and two the deviant.
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  So I'm wondering what's that connection?
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  Maybe red ice is something that can help power deviant or not deviant, but just androids
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  in general instead of the blue stuff.
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  Maybe if they take red ice, something's going to happen.
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  I don't know.
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  I think we've seen red ice at, well, we saw Todd using it and it was at the Carlos Ortiz
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  crime scene.
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  So it seems like maybe when the humans take it, it could cause more aggression, but it
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  is interesting because it contains thorium, which is in blue blood.
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  So there is a connection of some sort.
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  After the meeting, Connor wanders around to find Carlos Ortiz's android in a holding
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  cell.
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  He knows the android held something back in the investigation.
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  So he asks about the sculpture.
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  All the android says in responses, I'm going to die.
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  As Connor starts walking away, the deviant self-destructs by repeatedly slamming its
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  head against the glass.
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  And we both felt like that shouldn't be enough damage to take an android out.
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  It seemed, yeah, underwhelming in terms of the amount of damage.
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  If Marcus can survive through whatever he went through, this guy should have been able
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  to survive.
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  Connor returns to Hank's desk and tries to make a connection with him.
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  After some hit and miss conversation, Connor gets to work.
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  But I- in this hit and miss conversation, one of my favorite lines.
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  I like dogs.
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  Which you-
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  I wrote that too.
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  You noticed as well and I was so glad you did.
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  It's so awkward, but it's so endearing at the same time.
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  I don't know if you remember, season one, I said a majority of my favorite video game
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  characters have some odd connection to dogs.
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  This is one of them.
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  Oh.
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  Obviously, Majima, Big B. There's one more that's like one of my top characters that
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  also has to do with dogs.
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  It's weird.
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  It's random.
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  Anyway, I love this question.
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  But again, sass and passive aggression come out of Connor here.
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  He says to Hank,
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  Is there any reason in particular you despise me?
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  So honest.
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  And just the way the line is delivered is fantastic.
• 16:12
  I really do like Connor in this scene.
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  I feel like he's developing more personality.
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  Maybe that's like building off of Hank's personality because he told Amanda that he would adapt
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  to him.
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  Hank responds, yeah, there is one, but does not elaborate.
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  So in scrolling through the deviancy files, he discovers an AX 400 murder demand last
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  night.
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  So that's Kara.
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  And he thinks it's a good starting point, but fails to convince Hank to go.
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  However, an officer walks up with information on the same case, spurring Hank to check it
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  out.
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  Anything else on scene three?
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  Nope.
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  So a little less than an hour later, we're back to Kara and Alice.
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  Kara removes her LED like Marcus did and also changes her hairstyle and appearance.
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  Oh my gosh, can a woman have a different hairstyle than a bob or long hair?
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  Unlike Madison, my goodness.
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  But no, you had to choose a Madison haircut.
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  Had to choose the Madison haircut.
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  At least she didn't rip her pants to be booty shorts.
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  It was the default copy of the Madison club scene.
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  Thank goodness.
• 17:26
  While waiting for Alice to take a bath, Kara sees a news report that is about her and about
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  Todd's murder on the TV, and we see that this has had a negative impact on public opinion.
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  Currently, the public is skeptical.
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  Kara decides that they should check out the address the andread gave her last night, but
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  before they head out, we see that Connor and Hank have arrived at the motel looking for
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  them.
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  Everything's moving pretty quickly.
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  Like, how did they find Todd's body so quickly?
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  How did Connor know to go to the motel?
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  And how is Kara hearing about it so quickly that she knows she needs to make her escape?
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  There's a line of drug addicts at Todd's house.
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  Their drug dealer's dead.
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  It caused a commotion.
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  But Connor and Hank question the motel clerk who gives them the room number.
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  But Kara and Alice have already fled.
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  Also, they forgot the chocolate bar in the hotel room.
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  After all that hard work.
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  The other thing too is, doesn't Connor address Kara as she when talking to the motel clerk,
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  but then Hank addresses Kara as it?
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  So I think it also goes to show how the humans are seeing androids as things versus Connor
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  himself as an android sees other androids as peers.
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  After some close calls, Kara and Alice are able to get on a train and make their escape.
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  Okay, moving right along to scene five.
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  It's now 430 p.m. on November 6th and Marcus is on a train and we hear a news report saying
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  that, well, referencing Connor and then we hear it say a line, this is the first time
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  an android is helping with a criminal investigation.
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  So there's a lot riding on Connor right now.
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  He's the test.
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  He's the example.
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  Can androids be detectives?
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  The humans don't trust cyber life enough to program androids in a way that they won't
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  be crossing the line.
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  And until the police have an ability to control what those limitations are for androids, I
• 19:44
  don't think androids should be part of the police force no matter how good they are.
• 19:49
  Yeah, it seems like there's maybe a lot riding on this for cyber life because if it goes
• 19:53
  well this could be a whole new market for them.
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  Marcus arrives at the Ferndale station, which is what he saw when the dying android told
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  him to find Jericho.
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  That image is the first in a set that creates a scavenger hunt leading to Jericho.
• 20:10
  What's with the guy that bumps into him after the escalator?
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  I thought for sure that he like stole something from him, picked his pocket, but I don't
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  think anything ever comes of it.
• 20:21
  Yeah, I don't know why that scene was included.
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  Maybe it goes to show that Marcus isn't aggressive?
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  Because if that guy bumped into Todd, Todd would beat the living daylights out of him.
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  After the scavenger hunt, Marcus finally arrives at Jericho.
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  It is a ship.
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  Also a bridge breaks so he climbs up, but then he jumps off into the water?
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  So I don't understand why he had to climb up.
• 20:56
  Why could he not just jump down from the get-go?
• 21:00
  This scene makes as much sense as the construction scene in Heavy Rain where it's absolutely
• 21:07
  unnecessary to do all that stuff.
• 21:12
  And then also, once we're inside the ship, why all the unnecessary horror?
• 21:17
  It doesn't even go with the style of this video game.
• 21:21
  Yeah, it's odd.
• 21:23
  And I feel like with the last Marcus scene, they were kind of trying to do a little bit
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  of horror too with the wall of arms and the jump scare of the guy grabbing him.
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  Like, why?
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  Why are we adding unnecessary horror into the Marcus chapters?
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  I don't get it.
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  And then he falls again.
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  He makes it to the people, the androids of Jericho.
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  And scene ends.
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  Great.
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  Yep.
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  Now, 3.02 PM, Connor and Hank stop so that Hank can get some food.
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  Connor's goal in this scene is to reconcile with Hank.
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  He watches him make an illegal bet.
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  When Connor confronts him about it, I love how matter of fact Hank is.
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  And Connor just seems so confused because he's like, he knows it's wrong, but Hank
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  is so matter of fact about it not being a big deal that I think it just confuses him.
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  Well, it's also that kind of personality that Cyberlife doesn't take into consideration
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  when programming how to interact with other people.
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  Like Hank's level of sarcasm extends to the point where he makes personality attacks
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  on Connor saying that, oh, your looks and your voices and everything that Connor can't
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  change.
• 22:41
  He's still trying to figure out Hank for sure.
• 22:44
  Speaking of Connor again asks him why he hates androids so much and all he says is, I have
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  my reasons.
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  So we're still in the dark about that.
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  But then Connor provides some information about deviance.
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  He says that they believe a mutation in the software causes deviancy.
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  His quote is, they don't feel emotion.
• 23:03
  They get overwhelmed by irrational instructions.
• 23:07
  It makes a lot of sense because emotions include pain, but I don't think androids experience
• 23:14
  that.
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  So it's like, you need some kind of stimulant to make them get panic attacks, essentially.
• 23:22
  I mean, it seems like Cyberlife has coded them to replicate human emotions, so something
• 23:29
  in the software would be telling them when to emote.
• 23:34
  So it makes sense that they would get overwhelmed in highly emotional situations like being
• 23:39
  abused.
• 23:42
  And then one of my favorite, I like the scene in general.
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  I think this is a good little break and I like the dynamic between Connor and Hank.
• 23:51
  I feel like these actors have great chemistry and I think this scene is a perfect example
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  of it.
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  At one point, Hank asks Connor what all he knows about him and says, so what's your
• 24:03
  conclusion?
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  And Connor responds, I think working with an officer with personal issues is an added
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  challenge, but adapting a human unpredictability is one of my features.
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  And then he winks.
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  The wink is so funny.
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  And I think it was also improvised too.
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  So soon Connor receives a report of a deviant only a few blocks away, so they leave to go
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  check it out.
• 24:30
  They arrive at the location to find signs of a deviant, which Connor eventually locates
• 24:34
  and chases down.
• 24:37
  So we know that he likes to touch blood with his fingers and lick it, but he does it so
• 24:44
  quick in this scene.
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  It's a quick lick.
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  He does a quick lick.
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  He doesn't want Hank to know.
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  He doesn't.
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  He's self-conscious now.
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  Isn't there more RA9 written on the wall?
• 24:57
  Yeah.
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  So, lots more.
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  Yeah.
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  So I'm wondering if RA9 has something to do with Jericho.
• 25:06
  We know, what we know so far is from the Android interrogation where he says RA9 is the one
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  that's going to set us free.
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  He was the first of us to awaken.
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  It's kind of cryptic right now, but it is very much a thing with the deviants.
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  Do you think RA9 is short for the model number, like RA900 or RA9000 series?
• 25:28
  I think it could be that, or I think it could be code, potentially.
• 25:34
  I don't really know anything about code.
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  We'll see in the next couple scenes when Kara's having trouble remembering things, there's
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  just letters and numbers popping up, and it looks kind of similar.
• 25:47
  It's not RA9, but it's similar, so I feel like it's maybe a code type thing.
• 25:54
  While running from Connor, the deviant pushes Hank over a ledge.
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  Hank is holding on, but now Connor has to make a decision.
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  Stop the deviant or save Hank, who has an 89% chance of survival.
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  What do you think I did in my original playthrough?
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  Of course you didn't save him.
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  No, I didn't.
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  89% is fantastic odds.
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  I was not going to let that deviant get away.
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  So what happened if that was the route you chose?
• 26:24
  Oh, he just gets real pissed.
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  He gets real pissed at Connor.
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  Hank?
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  Yeah.
• 26:30
  Oh.
• 26:31
  In this playthrough, I saved him, which results in both a large spike in software instability
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  for Connor, and Hank is considerably warmer towards him.
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  But this decision is...
• 26:44
  I hate it.
• 26:46
  I hate this decision because I think it happens way too early in the game.
• 26:52
  We know that in this playthrough, I'm trying to make decisions that are more narratively
• 26:56
  pleasing, and this is the decision that just makes it difficult for me, because I feel
• 27:01
  like at this point in the game, Connor's so focused on his mission that he would look
• 27:06
  at the situation and say, Hank's gonna survive.
• 27:09
  I need to catch the deviant.
• 27:11
  But if he does that, I feel like the impact on his relationship with Hank is too extreme.
• 27:18
  I wonder how much it impacts the game too if you continue playing as you left Hank alone.
• 27:25
  We'll discuss more later at the end of the game about decisions because I don't want
• 27:30
  to spoil things for you.
• 27:33
  Scene 7.
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  November 6th, still, 5.13pm.
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  We're back to Marcus.
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  The androids of Jericho introduce themselves.
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  We've got Josh, Simon, and North.
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  So there's some conversation.
• 27:44
  Marcus isn't very happy with the state of Jericho.
• 27:47
  He says, hiding just to stay alive, that's freedom to you.
• 27:52
  And one of them responds, we have more freedom here than you ever did.
• 27:56
  And Marcus rebuttals and says, waiting in the dark for something to happen.
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  That's not how I see freedom.
• 28:03
  What's on our first introduction to Jericho?
• 28:05
  He's coming in hot with that kind of argument of immediately leading a revolution in the
• 28:13
  android history of just being like, we don't stand for this.
• 28:18
  And immediately changing the dynamic that they have at Jericho, which is either going
• 28:22
  to be good or it's going to backfire on him.
• 28:25
  I think he's really frustrated because there's all this secrecy about Jericho and then he
• 28:30
  gets there and it's just people hiding in the dark.
• 28:32
  So I understand his frustration.
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  But yeah, he came in real hot.
• 28:37
  Well first of all, he came in falling from the ceiling like he was sent from heaven.
• 28:42
  North tells Marcus to see Lucy.
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  She might be able to help you, she says.
• 28:47
  Lucy does help Marcus heal.
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  He's got a big gash in his side.
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  She cauterizes it and then hands him a bottle of blue blood.
• 28:55
  That looks so satisfying.
• 28:57
  The shape of this bottle, everything about this bottle.
• 29:00
  It reminds me so much of the Hercules movie.
• 29:05
  Do you remember the potion from that movie?
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  Was it blue?
• 29:09
  I'll show you.
• 29:11
  I get flashbacks.
• 29:13
  It's pretty similar.
• 29:14
  It's not, obviously it's not exact, but.
• 29:18
  Oh.
• 29:19
  Right?
• 29:20
  Do you remember this?
• 29:21
  For whatever reason, when I was a kid, this potion just looked, I wanted it.
• 29:27
  I needed it.
• 29:28
  I mean, I didn't want the potion.
• 29:30
  I don't remember it, but now that you show me, I can kind of recall it.
• 29:37
  Lots of connections to old movies for us in this episode.
• 29:41
  So after healing him, she asks for Marcus's hand and analyzes him.
• 29:48
  She says,
• 29:49
  You had it all.
• 29:50
  And you lost it all.
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  You've seen hell and now hell lives in you.
• 29:52
  Your heart is troubled.
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  A part of shadow and a part of light.
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  Which will prevail.
• 30:13
  Your choices will shape our destiny.
• 30:15
  Pretty generic fortune telling right there.
• 30:18
  Right?
• 30:19
  This part's a little over the top for me.
• 30:22
  It's applicable to everyone, not just Marcus, so.
• 30:25
  Yeah.
• 30:26
  A lot of this dialogue is just kind of generic.
• 30:30
  And cliche?
• 30:31
  I don't know.
• 30:32
  It reminds me a little bit of the guy that called him a demon.
• 30:38
  While wandering around, Marcus scans a cyber life crate and discovers the location of a
• 30:44
  warehouse.
• 30:45
  He gets the others on board to rob them.
• 30:48
  He says, we can steal what we need without fighting.
• 30:51
  And someone agrees it's better than waiting here to be shut down.
• 30:55
  What do you feel about what Marcus is doing so far?
• 30:57
  I guess you don't have anything to lose.
• 30:59
  That's the main thing.
• 31:00
  Yeah.
• 31:01
  I mean, we just saw one die.
• 31:03
  So who's next?
• 31:07
  Are we ready for the final scene?
• 31:09
  Yeah, let's do it.
• 31:11
  Now 7 45 p.m.
• 31:13
  Kara and Alice arrive at Zlotko's house, the place that the android informed Kara about.
• 31:19
  But it seems kind of sketchy.
• 31:21
  It does not take long for things to take a turn.
• 31:24
  Zlotko and his android Luther take them down to the basement after Zlotko says Kara needs
• 31:30
  to have her tracker removed.
• 31:32
  She's hooked up to this machine.
• 31:35
  And this is when he reveals that for some reason the tracker stopped working in deviance.
• 31:41
  So he's actually going to reset her memory and sell her or use her in his experiments.
• 31:47
  I had a really bad feeling.
• 31:49
  And I told you that when we were watching the gameplay together, why should they trust
• 31:54
  this dude?
• 31:55
  And also, if there was a tracker, it's too late to take off the tracker because they
• 31:59
  would have known where she was and they would have known where she was way earlier.
• 32:04
  So much to Alice because she goes, I have a bad feeling.
• 32:08
  This thing got me so stressed though.
• 32:11
  It is stressful.
• 32:14
  Kara does have her memory wiped and she meets Luther upstairs as instructed.
• 32:18
  But on the way she experiences flashes of her memories, especially Alice, Kara is then
• 32:25
  tasked with bringing Zlotko his dinner, which appears to consist of two bags of chips, a
• 32:32
  sandwich, a loose donut, some cookies.
• 32:36
  I think two mini muffins and then whatever milk tots are.
• 32:40
  I don't know what a milk tot is.
• 32:44
  But this is what I mean.
• 32:45
  This looks like a toddler put this meal together.
• 32:49
  Ah, this still makes me want donuts though.
• 32:52
  Dude, we saw donuts on Hank's desk and we have wanted donuts ever since.
• 32:56
  Yes, maybe we do donuts tomorrow together.
• 32:58
  Just gonna order a box.
• 33:00
  Just gonna come over to your place and just eat it all.
• 33:04
  Just inhale some donuts.
• 33:07
  Kara overhears that Alice will be taken to Zlotko in 10 minutes, so she must find her
• 33:12
  before time runs out, all while trying to remember who she is.
• 33:17
  She does eventually regain her memory and locates Alice.
• 33:20
  They make a run for it being chased by Zlotko and Luther.
• 33:23
  While she's exploring the house, there's a lot of RE9 written on the walls again.
• 33:31
  So what's going on?
• 33:33
  It's just their graffiti of choice.
• 33:37
  Also there's a freaking polar bear?
• 33:40
  Is that what it is?
• 33:42
  Yeah, cyber bear.
• 33:44
  What's it doing here?
• 33:46
  I don't know, but that bear saved the day.
• 33:48
  I was for sure.
• 33:50
  He's a hero.
• 33:51
  Also though, the stuffed ostrich.
• 33:53
  The taxidermy obsession.
• 33:55
  Odd choice.
• 33:57
  In the backyard, they are cornered until Luther turns on Zlotko, who is then attacked by his
• 34:02
  experimental androids that sound kind of like dinosaurs.
• 34:07
  So Luther has become a deviant and he wants to go with Kara and Alice.
• 34:11
  He says he knows someone who can get them to Canada.
• 34:15
  I don't want to trust him because of what happened, but at the same time, if he wanted
• 34:20
  to do harm to them, he would have already done so.
• 34:24
  There's nothing left to lose.
• 34:26
  Agreed.
• 34:27
  Here's the real question though.
• 34:30
  Who's worse?
• 34:31
  Zlotko or Dr. Formaldehyde, Colin Mochrie?
• 34:39
  Don't forget the ass grab.
• 34:40
  Definitely, I feel like Dr. Formaldehyde was attempted and maybe an actual rapist versus
• 34:49
  Zlotko.
• 34:51
  He's at least only resetting androids.
• 34:56
  They're both crazy in terms of experiments, but one also wants to rape his victims, so
• 35:02
  I feel like that's worse.
• 35:05
  Yeah, he was creepy.
• 35:07
  I think he's worse too.
• 35:09
  He's yuck.
• 35:12
  Well, anything else on part two you want to discuss?
• 35:19
  This was an intense episode going from horror and ethical dilemmas and possibly dying and
• 35:29
  then getting your memory wiped.
• 35:31
  It's intense.
• 35:33
  It is intense.
• 35:34
  I find it curious how easy it was for her to get her memory back.
• 35:38
  But I think they want to get the point across that emotions are stronger than anything.
• 35:45
  The feelings that she had for Alice is enough to overpower any type of external override,
• 35:53
  I guess.
• 35:55
  What is that telling us?
• 35:56
  Because if you have your memory wiped, do they have a backup?
• 35:59
  Seems like it should just be gone.
• 36:02
  Do they create their own memory system, maybe, when they're deviant?
• 36:06
  I think so.
• 36:07
  But I think we agree that deviants have so much different in their code, maybe, that
• 36:13
  they can have a little bit more of a tanu, even in their code, in creating their own
• 36:19
  code maybe.
• 36:22
  Well, is that all for part two?
• 36:26
  I think so.
• 36:28
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• 36:34
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• 36:50
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• 36:51
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• 36:54
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